Website Review and Suggestions

**weezu** · 12-29-2006, 09:19 AM

Hello,

We have developed with friends an internet service (www.weezu.com) with which you can discuss with people visiting the same web site than you. It's the first release of the service (open the 20th of december).

Could you please tell me what you think about this service and the web site ?

Thanks

Claude

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-29-2006, 12:05 PM

I wouldn't use it. Any toolbar install (or icon install or whatever twist you choose to put on it) that doesn't come from Yahoo!, Google, or MSN isn't going on any machine I'm using.

They often cause conflicts and problems and provide very little real benefit (as in this case.)

**vangogh** · 12-29-2006, 12:32 PM

Claude I'm not sure I would use weezu, but I think the idea is good. I would think that there are many people who would enjoy this and I think I've seen some similar products/services out there.

I do think trust can be an issue and success or failure can depend on how well you handle the trust and privacy issue.

I'd also suggest porting things to FireFox, Safari, Opera, because the people using those browsers are much more likely to be the early adopters. Weezu is a system that the more people use it the more would find it useful. So part of the trick in marketing it is to get people using it and liking it and talking about it and sharing it with friends.

IE users as a group will probably be the last to adopt an idea like this and I would target the other browsers first. You might also want to market this to university students if you're not already.

**ren** · 12-29-2006, 01:22 PM

It is definitely a fresh idea. But I am not sure if I would use it because I can't answer this question to myself:

why would I want to chat with other people who happen to be on the same site?

Is it because:

I have problem using the site? (why would I hang around then...)
Making new friends? (If it is a social network site, there are plenty of ways to communicate with other people...)
Just to meet random people with similar interest? (not sure if being on the same web site can conclude this...)

Maybe you can target certain niche sites (like game, gambling...) where certain people can be your earlier adopters, instead of a general tool for the world.

Also like vangogh had pointed out. You definitely need a toolbar for firefox.

Good luck!

**vangogh** · 12-29-2006, 01:40 PM

I think I'm like ren in my reasons for why I wouldn't use this kind of service. I really don't have any desire to be talking to people who happen to be looking at the same site as me just because we're looking at the same site.

But I'm sure there are people who would enjoy it. I think the trick is going to be finding those early adopters and getting them to become loyal weezu users.

And I do think those early adopters are going to more likely use a browser other than IE and I think college/university students are a good group to target.

**bizops** · 12-29-2006, 03:49 PM

I am not a big fan of installing toolbars on any of my machines - a few years ago, I might have considered it. You will have to find a target group of users that will want to use the service - like others have said, you might want to target university students. You may want to consider some kind of incentive for people to sign up - have some prizes that they can win (like one ticket per site talked about), you need to create some buzz to get people to want to sign up, and I guess figure out some way to make it a service that people need or love to have. Maybe if you could let us know how your marketing efforts go, that would be great. Good luck!

**weezu** · 12-29-2006, 05:19 PM

Thank you very much for your comments.

About a Firefox plug_in, it should be avaibable soon.

Why use Weezu ? As you wrote it Ren, the idea is if people visit the same site than you, may be they have a common interest with you.

For the moment we have no money to give them some prizes, so our marketing effort is essentially on the communication. If you have any idea to help use, it would be really nice.

Thank you.

**vangogh** · 12-31-2006, 03:16 PM

Glad to help weezu. There are certainly a lot of ways for people to chat with each other already and I can see where you'd find resistance to getting people to adopt a new solution. But I do think people will be interested in weezu. The trick is to find them and make it easy for them to spread the word. weezu is definitely something that gets better the more people that are using it and that's something in your favor.

**webdexed** · 12-31-2006, 04:13 PM

I personally wouldn't like to be bothered by people from sites I'm visiting. Especially, people I don't know. I can't see this taking off.

I hope I'm wrong

and I wish you the best of luck with it.

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**vangogh** · 12-31-2006, 09:53 PM

weezu, I'm assuming that just because you have this installed you don't need to talk to people. If it's not already built in you may want to allow people to keep themselves invisible or only allow certain people to see they are online.

Maybe have varying levels of being signed in. Also if you were not actively logged in so no one could see you maybe you would also be limited in what conversations you could see.

There's a lot of combinations you could set for how much you'll allow yourself to be seen and how much you'd be allowed to see depending on how much you wish to participate at a given moment.

**weezu** · 01-11-2007, 02:38 PM

Hello (and happy new year)

You are rigth Vangogh, the user can easily close the weezu bar if he doesn't want to discuss with some people or receive messages. In this case, his avatar does not appear.

In a future realease we will develop new functionnalities (more sophisticated) to help the user to manage his community.

**aj8690** · 01-11-2007, 10:32 PM

I think that is a really good idea. But I use Firefox. Is there only a version for Internet Explorer?

**weezu** · 01-12-2007, 11:13 AM

We are working on the firefox release. It should be available soon. I will inform you. :-)

**fhperez** · 01-12-2007, 11:52 AM

Trust seems to be the biggest thing you have to overcome and concentrate on.

**weezu** · 01-15-2007, 05:07 AM

Hello,

Yes, trust is a very important point but for the moment our main problem is to find the best way to communicate on Weezu and create a user's community

**icyblue** · 01-15-2007, 05:53 AM

Hi, weezu, very interesting idea, just employ some marketing startegy and think how to promote your software, I'm sure there's a niche for this product.

**lucpit4** · 01-15-2007, 06:03 AM

Good looking site.

**weezu** · 01-15-2007, 07:19 AM

Thank you very much.

As I am not marketing expert I'm looking for idea or information about marketing strategy and how to promote Weezu.

For the moment, we send message on forum or blog, but I think it's not enough (and we have no budget :-( ).

If you have any idea, you are welcome :-)

**tonya** · 01-15-2007, 10:07 AM

I agree with Vangogh (moderator) and a lot of the other reviews here.

1) Trust & Security. Is this program safe to install on my computer in a worl where we learn not to install untrusted add ons because they open the door for all sort of problems, virus etc Security also because of the issue of privacy.

That said there is a market out there for people who ICQ & yahoo message and also the online game community who like to game online because it opens the doors to a world of contact. There are clearly people who simply want to chat as well as browse, shop, game etc.

It is not something i would be interested in and I suspect I agree that this is a niche program which you should target first.

Before you try to market though you definately need the cross browser compatibility issue sorted so that it can be installed on IE, firefox, Opera and a whole host of other browsers. You should also consider some sort of licencing or agreement with trusted companies like Yahoo, Google etc who we all trust.

Best of luck with product

As for website review. I guess it is a very easy site to use although I would add soem CSS to customise and style your links rather than leave them default. Its plain and quick because its fairly simple which is great but I must add that this in itself makes the product perhaps feel less trustworthy. There are lots of small software add ons you can download and I myself advocate small programs like colour wheels but i like to see a professional looking business behind them that gives me some sort of guarantee and makes me feel that it is a professional trustworthy program I am about to install on my PC.

Perhaps look at other small business software sites like tiger colour http://www.tigercolor.com/ for inspiration.

This was a website review after all ! LOL

**MattCoops** · 01-15-2007, 12:46 PM

so its basically an instant messaging service?

why download it when there is aol, yahoo, msn, and [insert domain here],
all offering instant messaging.

Heres this site thats not trusted, unknown, wanting me to download an app that may have some worm or quirk that'll cause other apps on system to fail